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8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

InfoChachkie

In many instances, investors simply do not have the patience to wait for an entrepreneur to sufficiently clean up their deal once a significant issue is identified during the due diligence process. Solution – Identify the competencies that are critical to your startup's success and develop them internally. Frictionless Fundraising.

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the manner in which Pink Floyd created DSOTM. Some musicians would have felt pressure to record hit singles to ensure the continuation of their recording contract. Entrepreneurs should always err on the side of long-term gain. Pay To Play. Share and Enjoy.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it’s very powerful.”. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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Entreprenurs Must Kick Down The Door When Opportunity Knocks

InfoChachkie

Once the tour concluded, the group returned to Ron’s office where he notified them that he would initially sign them to a development deal. He made it clear that this approach would allow the band to re-cut a few of their demos, which he would use to persuade the label to sign the band to a full-fledged recording contract.

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Trade Show Guerilla Marketing – Booth Babes With Beards

InfoChachkie

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Her company has since signed a contract with Central Desktop. Serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein is an incredible marketer. Be unafraid but use sound judgment.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Idea Mensch. Thank you eMinutes. Thank you @eminutes.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. Not worth it.

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